* * * * * "It has seemed to me as if in this region the God of nature intended to make a more sublime display of his power, than in any other portion of the world.

He has done so in physical nature--in the majestic cataract, whose sound you can almost hear--in forest and in field--in the mind of man among you, In what has been accomplished to make your city what it is, the aged have done the most.

The middle aged may say we will improve upon what has been done; and the young, we shall accomplish still more than our fathers.

That, fellow-citizens, was the boast in the ancient Spartan procession--a procession which was divided into three classes--the old, the middle-aged, and the young.

They had a saying which each class repeated in turn.